Original scientific paper
Children’s graves from the archaeological site Rivine – Crkvina in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Josipa Baraka Perica
orcid.org/0000-0001-9308-8862
; Department of Archaeology, University of Zadar
Ante Uglešić
; Department of Archaeology, University of Zadar
Abstract
The site Rivine–Crkvina by Stolac, Bosnia and Herzegovina, seems at first glance a fairly rustic Late Antique archaeological site located in the interior of the Roman province of Dalmatia. However, quite to the contrary, it is full of distinctive features that are not easy to understand or explain. One of these features is the children’s graves in the west or mainly southwest part of the church, which in many ways are consistent with the usual practice of children’s burials in this period. An interesting feature of the site is the organisation of the graves of adults in their immediate vicinity, which, from all the evidence, were created later. They were dated by C14 and as a terminus post quem non provide an outline chronology of the whole Late Antique phase of the site.
Keywords
children’s graves; adults’ graves; Late Antiquity; Early Christian church; abandoned church
Hrčak ID:
284768
URI
Publication date:
1.12.2021.
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